Massive higher derivative gravity in D-dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetimes

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2009-09-01

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Guellue, Ibrahim
Tekin, Bayram

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We find the propagator and calculate the tree level scattering amplitude between two covariantly conserved sources in an anti-de Sitter background for the most general D-dimensional quadratic, four-derivative, gravity with a Pauli-Fierz mass. We also calculate the Newtonian potential for various limits of the theory in flat space. We show how the recently introduced three-dimensional New Massive Gravity is uniquely singled out among higher derivative models as a (tree level) unitary model and that its Newtonian limit is equivalent to that of the usual massive gravity in flat space.

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/38782

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